Basics of Human Potential Movement (HPM):

The HPM is a mix of New Age Occultism, Cultic Secularism (using language that sounds, on the surface, Christian, intellectual, and scientific) and good sound advice for life and business.  It is packaged for acceptance by corporations, governments, small businesses, churches, and education in the form of countless "motivational seminars" or "Learning to Learn skills."  It holds out the advice to lure the unsuspecting into the Occult and the Secular fantasies, because people want the success that the advice can bring.  People may want candy, but they don’t have to swim up a sewer to get it.  Even better sound advice can be found in the Bible.

HPM misses the true God, our personal Father God who loves us but HPM serves the god of self.  They are lovers of self rather than lovers of God.  HPM claims that humans have infinite potential.

HPM doesn’t realize that Jesus is divine, Savior, or true God and true man, but they consider self to be their savior.  Adherents are lost and Christians should pray for their salvation.

HPM depends on human-generated self-righteousness.

HPM often teaches all is One--monism--which is used as a way of explaining the occult powers.  While HPM attributes these powers to the human mind, the adherents are actually entertaining demons for psycho kinesis, levitation, and spells.  Everything, however, is explained in scientific terms avoiding any mention of occult terminology.

HPM claims that humans have infinite potential.  It then seeks to find that unlimited potential through the human mind and the occult.

HPM has its conceptual roots in existentialism (the claim that individual human beings create the meanings of their own lives), humanistic/existential psychology, and humanism.